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Two Manila City Hall employees ordered charged for counterfeiting of subpoenas
23 July 2011, Ombudsman Website

Acting Ombudsman Orlando C. Casimiro ordered the filing of criminal and administrative charges against two employees of the local government of Manila who were arrested for counterfeiting of subpoenas.
          Engr. Edwin Macadangdang and Antonio Gapasin, both employees of the Manila City Hall, were caught in an entrapment operation by the combined elements of the Office of the Ombudsman’ Field Investigation Office (OMB-FIO) and the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-National Capital Region (PNP-CIDG-NCR).
          They are facing an administrative case for grave misconduct (Section 52 (a) (3) Rule IV, of the CSC Resolution No. 99-1936), usurpation of authority or official function (Article 177 of the Revised Penal Code) and falsification by public officer (Article 171 of the RPC).
          Records show that the modus operandi of the respondents involves the issuing of bogus subpoenas which they direct to numerous government agencies requiring them to submit written documents to a specified Post Office (PO) Box.
          It was learned that Gapasin and Macadangdang maintained a PO Box No. 1180 in the Quezon City Central Post Office which was suspiciously registered under the name of one “Orlando C. Casimiro” (the Acting Ombudsman).
          In coordination with the PNP-CIDG, the FIO’s Intelligence Bureau conducted a surveillance operation relative to the illegal activity of the duo which comprises of forging of subpoenas from July 14-18, 2011.
          The authorities then conducted entrapments which led to the separate arrests of Gapasin and Macadangdang, who were using Acting Ombudsman Casimiro’s name.
          Gapasin was caught at the Quezon City Post Office, while Macadangdang was arrested at the City Engineer’s Office of the Manila City Hall.
          Dir. Beda Epres of the Office of the Ombudsman’s Intelligence Bureau said the Office discovered the illegal doings of the two when one of the victims transmitted his response to the Office of the Ombudsman relative to the subpoena instead of sending it to their bogus PO Box.
          Accused are currently detained at the CIDG, PNP at Camp Crame, Quezon City.

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